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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2020-06-25 20:29:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-26 00:27:36 -0700
commitb9e20f0da1f5c9c68689450a8cb436c9486434c8 (patch)
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mm, compaction: make capture control handling safe wrt interrupts
Hugh reports: "While stressing compaction, one run oopsed on NULL capc->cc in __free_one_page()'s task_capc(zone): compact_zone_order() had been interrupted, and a page was being freed in the return from interrupt. Though you would not expect it from the source, both gccs I was using (4.8.1 and 7.5.0) had chosen to compile compact_zone_order() with the ".cc = &cc" implemented by mov %rbx,-0xb0(%rbp) immediately before callq compact_zone - long after the "current->capture_control = &capc". An interrupt in between those finds capc->cc NULL (zeroed by an earlier rep stos). This could presumably be fixed by a barrier() before setting current->capture_control in compact_zone_order(); but would also need more care on return from compact_zone(), in order not to risk leaking a page captured by interrupt just before capture_control is reset. Maybe that is the preferable fix, but I felt safer for task_capc() to exclude the rather surprising possibility of capture at interrupt time" I have checked that gcc10 also behaves the same. The advantage of fix in compact_zone_order() is that we don't add another test in the page freeing hot path, and that it might prevent future problems if we stop exposing pointers to uninitialized structures in current task. So this patch implements the suggestion for compact_zone_order() with barrier() (and WRITE_ONCE() to prevent store tearing) for setting current->capture_control, and prevents page leaking with WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE in the proper order. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616082649.27173-1-vbabka@suse.cz Fixes: 5e1f0f098b46 ("mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction") Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.1+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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